Amazon Expanding in New Jersey, Company to Open Two New Fulfillment Centers
April 27 2016 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Fulfillment centers in Florence and Carteret
will add more than 2,000 new jobs
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to expand
its footprint in New Jersey by opening two new fulfillment centers.
The new sites will be located in Florence and Carteret. Through
these new buildings, Amazon will bring more than 2,000 full-time
jobs to the Garden State.
“We place our fulfillment centers close to customers to provide
the fastest possible delivery times, and this expansion in New
Jersey is directly tied to our increasing customer demand,” said
Akash Chauhan, Amazon’s vice president of North America fulfillment
operations. “We currently have more than 5,500 full-time jobs in
the state and we are excited about the opportunity to add 2,000 new
full-time positions.”
Amazon currently operates a fulfillment center in Carteret with
more than 500 full-time associates. This new fulfillment center,
the second in Carteret, will be more than 800,000 square-feet and
employ more than 1,500 full-time associates. The more than 600,000
square-foot fulfillment center in Florence will employ more than
500 full-time associates when opened.
“More fulfillment centers mean more jobs for New Jersey, and,
while we celebrate the sheer number of jobs being created, we also
want to recognize the impact that these investments will have on
their new communities. The employees who will work with Amazon will
form the fabric of their neighborhoods,” said Lt. Governor Kim
Guadagno. “As Amazon continues to show its commitment to the towns
of Florence and Carteret, we will continue to demonstrate our
intent to help these communities grow and thrive as well.”
Full-time employees at Amazon receive competitive hourly wages
and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, 401(k)
and company stock awards starting on day one. Amazon also offers
regular full-time employees generous maternity and paternity leave
benefits and access to innovative programs like Career Choice,
where it will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses
related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are
relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch,
employees are pursuing degrees in game design and visual
communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a
few.
To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center,
visit www.workatamazonfulfillment.com.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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